But thanks to the Great Green Wall, the land produces more crops. So the more trees there are, the better harvests we have.”

多亏绿色长城，土地(上)产出了更多农作物。因此树越多，我们的收成就越好。”

The African first-fruit festivals had many things in common: people would get together to celebrate their harvest; they used to give thanks for their harvests and for life; they used to honour their ancestors and celebrate their past

非洲的初收果节有许多共同之处:人们聚会庆祝丰收;感谢丰收、感谢生活;敬仰祖先、纪念过去。

Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident.

丰年挥霍浪费，歉年勤俭节约。

Their farm has consistently gathered in good harvests over the past few years.

过去几年他们农场一直收成很好。

Good harvests alternate with bad.

好收成与坏收成交替更迭。

Offering sacrifices to the God of the Earth and the God of Harvests was a time-honoured custom in Chinese history

祭社稷，是中国古老的传统习俗。

The name of the God of Harvests is Qi who is believed to be an ancient agronomist

稷神叫“弃”，是古代精通农事的“农艺师”。

This year promises to be another good one for harvests .

今年看来又是个丰收年。

This year promises to be another good one for harvests .

今年看来又是一个丰收年。

This year the whole nation has had better harvests than in the former years.

今年全国的收成超过往年。

In later documents are found fragments of "recollections" which reveal that primitive singing and dancing were intimately bound up with sacrificial rites and prayers for good harvests

据后来文献保留下的片段"记忆"可知，原始乐舞的举行跟祈求丰收等祭祀是"一而二，二而一"的事

a series of good harvests

连年的丰收.

a continuance of bumper harvests

连年丰收.

A succession of bad harvests had reduced the small farmers to penury.

连年歉收使小农陷入了一贫如洗的困境。

A sequence of bumper harvests

连续的大丰收

Reap Bumper harvests in succession

连续获得丰收

As the national capital in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing understandably has the most magnificent Altar of the Earth and Harvests ever constructed in the land

明、清两代，北京作为都城，北京的社稷坛自然成了全国最宏伟的神坛。

Farmers met with a sequence of bad harvests .

农民们遇到了接二连三的坏收成。

But the last few year’s harvests had been ruined by flood and drought and the countryside was overrun by bandits who seized fields and land, giving the people no peace.

偏值近年水旱不收,鼠盗蜂起,无非抢田夺地,鼠窃狗偷,民不安生

The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (1420)has three concentric circles of massive wood columns symbolizing the four seasons, 12 months, and 12 daily hours;

祈年殿(1420)有三层同心圆的环，圆周上的高大木柱，分别象征四季、十二个月与一天十二个时辰

They have reaped rich harvests for many years running.

他们连年丰收。

The tapestry of the Hall of Prayer for Harvest in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, which is on display in the Palaces of Nations as a gift from China to the United Nations, gives expression to the wish of the Chinese people for good weather, bumper harvests , national stability and happiness of all peoples throughout the world.

万国宫里陈列的中国赠送给联合国的北京天坛祈年殿挂毯，就表达了中国人民企盼普天之下风调雨顺、国泰民安的愿望。

Later the dance was used to praise the virtues and achievements of Huangdi, and then became a sacrificial dance in ancestral ceremonies asking for ample harvests .

以后又用来讴歌黄帝的功德，作为祭祖和祈求丰收的祭祀舞蹈。

The dance accompanied by drum is used in making sacrifices to ancestors, praying for rain, dispersing evils, encouraging people and celebrating harvests .

因此，几千年来鼓舞结合、形式多样，鼓舞被用于祭祀祖先、干旱求雨、消灾驱邪、鼓舞士气以及高歌狂舞喜庆丰收……

Some of the farmers had been provident in the good years but others were ruined by the bad harvests .

有些农民在丰年节衣缩食有备无患,但也有些农民由于歉收而陷入绝境.

In these regions, two and sometimes three harvests a year were normal, and so the tempo of work was intense

在这些地区，农民一般要种两季或三季，劳动强度非常大。

But by this experiment I was made master of my business, and knew exactly when the proper season was to sow; and that I might expect two seed times, and two harvests every year.

这次试验,使我成了种田好手,知道什么时候该下种。现在我知道一年可播种两次,收获两次。

Harvests are poor in this infertile area.

这块贫瘠的土地上收成不好。

And the goddess of grains and harvests , demeter, supervised agriculture and stood for mother of civilization

最后一位是代表文明之母的得墨忒耳女神，她掌管着五谷的生长和收获，指导农业生产。

||1:But the story of prescriptive planting is also a cautionary tale about the conflicts that arise when data entrepreneurs meet old-fashioned businessfolk.||2:Farmers might be expected to have mixed feelings about the technology anyway: although it boosts yields, it reduces the role of discretion and skill in farming—their core competence.||3:However, the bigger problem is that farmers distrust the companies peddling this new method.||4:They fear that the stream of detailed data they are providing on their harvests might be misused.||5:Their commercial secrets could be sold, or leak to rival farmers; the prescriptive-planting firms might even use the data to buy underperforming farms and run them in competition with the farmers; or the companies could use the highly sensitive data on harvests to trade on the commodity markets, to the detriment of farmers who sell into those markets.

||1:不过，当熟识数据的企业家们遇上传统的生意人，规范性种植这一传奇也会因其中的火药味变得扣人心弦。||2:农民们对于这项技术本来就是喜忧参半：虽然产量有所提高，但是这却使得他们的核心竞争力—用于种植的判断力和技艺变得无足轻重了。||3:不过，更大的问题是农民对于兜售这项新技术的不信任。||4:他们担心自己所提供的收成的详细数据可能会被滥用。||5:他们的商业机密可能会被出售、或者泄露给竞争对手；这些指令种植企业甚至可能利用这些信息去收购那些表现欠佳的 农场，使其成为不可忽视的竞争势力；它们还有可能利用这些高度敏感的数据在大宗期货市场上交易，从而给在此市场中作为卖方的农民造成损失。